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[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the problem comes about that women in groups tend to have a desire to make, for lack of a better word, the space more "feminine" meaning they tend to be less direct, and kinder in their dealing, at least on a surface level.

I think this is counter productive to general parliamentary proceedings, where more combative and for lack of a better word "mean" and direct dealings are necessary to get anything done in a reasonable amount of time.

There are plenty of women that can deal with it in what you'd call a space having "male energy" and are welcome contributors, hell essential contributors since it helps to compensate for the problem with exclusively male spaces utterly missing important emotional concerns. But I don't think most women have the "cajones" to deal with male energy in these spaces without either breaking down into an emotional mess over people being mean to them, or going full on girlboss and thinking being mean and abrasive for the sake of being mean and abrasive is beneficial.

Frankly it's the "what color should we paint the house" problem when there is no budget for that. A female energy dominated parliament will go on about what color to paint the house all the while ignoring the elephant in the room in that there's no money to paint it. The male energy dominated Parliament will never paint it because who cares.